Just hours ago, someone contacted me as the developer of s new bg bot
soon to be released. He said I deserved to see a private preview since he incorporated a couple of ideas into his bot. He claimed that in almost 500 matches, it decisively defeated both XG and Gnubg.

Excitedly, I asked if it was an Alpha-Bot. He said it wasn't but it was unlike the other bots. Because it's was very unique, he had called it "Peerless".

So, we arranged a video chat and he started demontrating his bot playing against XG++. Through the first game, XG marked a few of it's moves as questionable and one as error. XG won the game almost gammoning it,
with the cube at 8 in 25-point match.

Very early in the second game, XG marked its move as a clear blunder. At
that point I thought that someone mad at me was playing a prank on me.
I said "Okay, you had me. Bye." He said "Oh, no, no. Wait. It will win."

But how in hell? Surely not playing like that. Yet, he kept assuring me that the bot knew what it was doing. Amazingly, Peerless pulled it off and won
the match, which was only a few geames long because the cube got high
in every game. While we were having drinks and chatting, the bots played
10 matches in just a little over an hour. Despite XG's marking dozens of
its moves as warnings, errors and blunders, Peerless came on top 7 to 3.

Wow! Finally, a bot just about as good as Murat. :) In the end, it became
clear to me that all those warnings, errors and blunders were actually
tactical moves made by Peerless sacrificing PR.

Punnily, he had called his bot "Peerless" to mean "PR-less". Let me do my
share by coining a new BG expression (similar to "I couldn't care less").

I couldn't PR more...

MK

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